As Mrs. Mallard sat staring out the window "There was a dull stare in her eyes. It was not a stare of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought" (Chopin 23). The second setting of Louise's isolation leads her to abandon her thoughts of sadness over her husband's death, and come to the realization that she is now free. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature" (24). The authors use of two settings; face to face with her sister and alone in her room allow Louise's situation to truly unfold. If she did not go upstairs and be with her thoughts, she would not have came to the conclusion that her oppression was over, and her lifestyles of being "owned" by her husband was over as well. .
The setting in Ernest Hemmingway's, "Hills like White Elephants," represents the character's internal conflict. The protagonist of the story Jig, is pregnant. She and the male protagonist, the American are in a dispute of whether she should get an abortion or not. They are sitting at a train station bar in Ebro, Northern Spain. The train tracks divide two settings; the side the couple is on which is very arid, dry, barren land. On the opposite side, there is a flourish of vegetation, a river and the hills that look like white elephants. "Across on the other side where fields of grain and trees along the banks of Ebro. Far away beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees" (Hemmingway 31). In this case Hemmingway uses each side of the setting to represent each side of the abortion argument. The dry barren land represents if Jig did have the abortion; she would be "infertile".
